Revision as of 01:03, 1 February 2009

Fedora Astronomy, refused packages

Packages whose licensing or other issues forbid then to be included in Fedora. *sad panda* You can also check packages already in Fedora , packages under review and proposed packages .

Aladin Sky Atlas	License: For educational and research purposes only
Audela	License: Depends on libRTImage which is non-profit only. There might more such things in the src/external directory as there are many files lacking any license information and sometimes even author contact.
cora	License: One of the dependencies, PGPLOT, is not free to use. Please see here for more information : [1]
Gasgano	License: Java Data File Organiser used to run CPL recipes. Only jars are provided. Contacted, ESO helpdesk confirms that Gasgano is not free software
Iraf	License: Iraf includes some libraries (NCAR graphics) whose redistribution is forbidden in the COPYRIGHTS file
jsky	License: GPL, but depends on non-free jai
NightView	License: Using closed and proprietary SBIG library.
VOPlot	License: Non-commercial usage only
XEphem	License: Personal or educational usage only.
ssystem	Unmaintained: openuniverse is a maintained fork of this software.
aa56	Deprecated: old software...
xplns	License: no source code available
Name of package	Reason

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 |[http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/ Aladin Sky Atlas]  || '''License:''' For educational and research purposes only
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+|[http://www.audela.org/ Audela]  || '''License:''' Depends on libRTImage which is non-profit only. There might more such things in the src/external directory as there are many files lacking any license information and sometimes even author contact.
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 |[http://www.hs.uni-hamburg.de/DE/Ins/Per/Ness/Cora/index.html cora] || '''License:''' One of the dependencies, PGPLOT, is not free to use. Please see here for more information : [http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~tjp/pgplot/#copyright]